Sepp Blatter, the dethroned Fifa president, is preparing to publish a personal account of his near 18 years at the head of football’s world governing body. The Swiss firm Werd and Weber Verlag is to release the book, titled Sepp Blatter: Mission Football, written by his official spokesman, Thomas Renggli.

The publicity blurb says Blatter “repeatedly had to put up with harsh reviews and prejudices” and details how the 79-year-old “learned to deal with the hostility” during his lengthy tenure as Fifa president, which came to a swift end last June.

A spokesperson for the publishers told Press Association Sport: “It’s his very own opinion on his time at Fifa.

“It’s a very personal book, not judicially edited or sanitised at all.”

The book is scheduled to be published in Blatter’s native Switzerland in April, not in February as detailed on the publisher’s website, and an English language version is due to be published in June. It will cost 39 Swiss francs (almost £28).

Blatter and the banned Uefa chief Platini had their hearings with Fifa’s appeals committee in Zurich last week after being found guilty of corruption over a “£1.3m disloyal payment” made to the Frenchman.

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Fifa is due to elect Blatter’s successor on Friday, with five men in contention to succeed him as president. Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa of Bahrain, the Asian Football Confederation president, and Uefa’s general secretary, Gianni Infantino, are the favourites for the role.

The former Fifa vice-president Prince Ali of Jordan, the Frenchman Jérôme Champagne and the South African Tokyo Sexwale are also on the ballot but are considered outsiders.